Trevor Herman Hilker is an architectural designer with an interest in speculative tools for the production, presentation and representation of architecture and its imaginaries.
Hilker holds a MArch from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his thesis—Other Stories—took on an interrogation of the mythologies through which Western modernity has generated and persevered, alongside an architectural exploration of their possible alternatives. He was the Albert Kahn Scholar, the Richard M. and Sidney K. Robinson Scholar and the Guido and Elizabeth Binda Scholar at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, where he earned his BS in Architecture.
As a founding member of MIT’s Critical Broadcasting Lab, Hilker’s critical and curatorial work has been exhibited at the 2019 Seoul Architecture Biennale and the 2019 São Paulo Architecture Biennale. His design work has been published in Dimensions journal and Architect Magazine.
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Trevor Herman HilkerLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 302Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course connects the methods, traditions, and conventions of architectural drawing with contemporary technology and representational cultures. This course recognizes that for architects to operate productively, politically, socially, and ethically given the ubiquity of the digital image, both an advanced command of computational techniques and drawing techniques are immediately and primarily necessary. The digital image is the standard by which aesthetic content is transmitted, published and processed. Its pervasive role in contemporary architectural culture-and humanity-is mediated and confronted in this course. Relatedly, material drawing traditions are essential, valuable and provocative. The techniques covered in this studio-taught course include the manual and automated manipulation of digital images and material drawings at dramatically varied scales and dimensions. A structure of creative prompts continually positions the drawing and the image in parallel, with an emphasis on developing students' sensibilities, and capacity for both improvisational and scripted constructions. Students will create from memory, from life, from imagination, and from reference. As a result, students develop an architectural language that can engage multiple media and subjects.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MArch: Architecture (3yr)
ARCH 2101-03 - THE MAKING OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 2101-03
THE MAKING OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2024
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: MTH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Trevor Herman HilkerLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 306Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course, the first in a two semester sequence, explores design principles specific to architecture. Two interrelated aspects of design are pursued:
the elements of composition and their formal, spatial, and tectonic manipulation
meanings conveyed by formal choices and transformations.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Architecture Students.
An introduction to the principles of architectural design beginning with a close examination of materials, forces and the human body. The examination will progressively widen in scope to include issues of form, space, structure, program and site. This condensed architectural studio is intended for freshmen and students outside the Division of Architecture and Design.
